Jolla launches sailfish 3, the project is still alive

The smartphone market has practically become a two-horse race between Android and iOS. Gone are the days when alternative mobile platforms like Maemo and Meego were trying to carve out a niche for themselves in the market. From those failed attempts, Jolla and her Sailfish operating system emerged. Now, in the Sailfish 3 version, the mobile platform shows that it still continues.

Sailfish 3 shows Jolla's interest in continuing with the project

The Finnish company's history is colorful. Made up of former Nokia employees, they tried to continue what the old mobile giant tried to do and, for a time, succeeded. But after his successful Jolla Phone crowdfunding, he began to fail to maintain his ability to create devices. In the end, he was forced to switch to a business that simply licensed its half-open, half-proprietary operating system with very few customers in the consumer device market.

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It's probably not a surprise, then, that Jolla Sailfish 3 seems to be more business-oriented, with the addition of features like Mobile Device Management (MDM) and built-in VPN. There are even a few things that should have been around from day one, like external storage encryption and USB OTG support. There are also some improvements to the user interface, one of Sailfish's key strengths and unique qualities.

So far, Jolla has been silent with business customers, but he likely has a few if he can keep his business open for that long. As for the consumer, it has adopted a rather strange strategy of official compatibility with Sony Xperia phones under its program "Sailfish X.

With Sailfish 3, Jolla expands that compatibility to include not only Sony's most expensive models. The Xperia XA2, XA2 Plus, and XA2 Ultra now give Sailfish OS fans a way to experience the platform, even if Jolla no longer makes its own devices.

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